Quotes About War

Even as a little kid, I was fascinated by newspapers and magazines. They were my TV. I'd be the first one up to grab the morning paper, mainly to look at the sports pictures, the war pictures.

'The war in Iraq - if Osama was a Christian - it's the Christmas present he never would have expected.

Most people are remarkably resilient. Even those who have been through war or great loss often find reservoirs of strength. But the legacy of trauma is a heavy burden to bear.

The U.S. military is not war weary. Our military draws strength from confronting our enemies when clear policy objectives are set and we are fully resourced for the fight.

I think every war certainly wears on national will and national patience, particularly a counterinsurgency.

Of course I would never compare myself to someone who actually went through a war, but I definitely matured shooting 'The Pacific.' I'm more calm and I have more patience.

If you're going to write about war, the ugly side is inevitable. Suffering and death are obviously part of war.

Following 9/11, intelligence indicated numerous links between al-Qa'eda and Algeria. It began to look as though the roots of jihad could be traced back to the war in Algeria that began 50 years ago.

Military intelligence interrogators, however, their goal is to get information, to save lives, to stop the war, to find Saddam - whatever the information is going to be used for, at whatever cost.

When a decision is made to go to war based on intelligence, it is a fateful decision. It has ramifications and impacts way beyond the current months and years.

6, 000 people were killed, crippled, and wounded during the War of Independence. The economy was devastated - there was no milk, just milk powder. No eggs, but egg powder. Meat was only once a week.

We were told this war would be over in a matter of weeks, and that the Iraqis would be able to finance it with oil sales. We were promised it was not a mission of nation building.

After serving in the Korean War, I actually started working towards a master's degree in finance.

Traditionally Presidents Day was Washington's birthday. It was celebrated as a public holiday on February 22 each year, in peace or in war.

In a war situation or where violence and injustice are prevalent, poetry is called upon to be something more than a thing of beauty.

Only World War II, which mobilized 10 million draftees, could by any stretch of the imagination be called a people's war.

There is a type of snobbish, pompous journalist who thinks that the only news that has any validity is war, famine, pestilence or politics. I don't come from that school.

It's a sad fact that a lot of those countries who haven't been involved in the war in Iraq have taken far more responsibility for rehoming people displaced by the war than Britain has done.

Be skeptical of concepts that divorce war from its political nature, particularly those that promise fast, cheap victory through technology.

My court was divided between peace and war according to their various interests, but I considered only their reasons.

If the inner world is inundated with peace, then the nightmare of world war cannot even come into being.

It's hard for me to stay silent when I keep hearing that peace is only attainable through war. There's nothing more scary than watching ignorance in action.

War may be made by one party, but it requires two to make peace.

When it comes to matters of war and peace, we must not act rashly.